Thus far, it's been a fantastic relationship

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Last fall, we completed our first big client project together - strategic and tactical work for Scribd.com, a Web 2.0 startup that had tremendous SEO opportunity. I'd just emailed over a Techcrunch article covering Scribd's success and the traffic trend line at the end of the year makes us all smile. The big topic, however, isn't specific clients, but scaling and tools. Distilled's tool, Reputation Monitor, has been steadily growing and they've already got a very impressive customer list.


We work on how SEOmoz's web crawl (and o telemarketing leads, israel telephone number data ur new super-secret project) can help make the service even better, and run through the wireframes for our next version of PRO (hopefully Adam will have something to tease us with on the blog in the next few weeks). It's remarkable how much value I get from time spent with Will & Duncan. CEOs often complain about how lonely it is at the top, but sharing tough experiences with friends who confront those same challenges every day isn't just cathartic, but educational, too.


12:00pm GMT, February 18th I'm heading out to lunch with Doig Simmonds, my maternal grandmother's adopted brother. A bit of back story - the early 1940's were a terrificly bad time to be a Jew in Eastern Europe, so the British helped out by airlifting kids like my grandmother out of danger and into the suburbs of London. Doig made it out to my wedding last year and now I'm getting the chance to visit with him again.